See wahala, so someone can not buy things in Lagos traffic again? It is all over!

We heard that officials of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps Agency (LASECORPS) arrested six motorists at the Ikeja Along end of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway for allegedly buying goods in the traffic.

Four hawkers and owners of a Honda Accent, Hiace, Toyota Hilux, Toyota Sienna, taxi cab and commercial bus also landed in trouble afte their vehicle was impounded by the agency.

We heard that they were accused of breaching the environmental law, apprehended and brought before a magistrate, Mr. Olayiwola Ogundare of the Ogba Magistrate’s Court, who sentenced them to three months’ imprisonment each.

Ogundare gave them an option of N10,000 fine each, adding that each of the motorists should pay additional N20,000 fine into the state coffers.

Meanwhile, the Head of Public Affairs Unit for LASECORPS, Rahmat Alabi, who also confirmed the report to newsmen said that the offenders were arrest was in line with the Environmental Sanitation Law, 2015.

“The corps marshal believes that the enforcement of the Environmental Sanitation Law, 2015 that makes both buyers and sellers liable, will send the expected signal and halt the prevalence of the illegal highway hawking and street trading in the metropolis. If there are no buyers, there will be no sellers,” she added.